Olena Food – Online Ordering for Food Trucks & Restaurants

Email Notifications

Send automatic emails on key order events, with separate messages for admins and customers: order confirmation, successful payment, and cancellation (when a customer cancels a pending order). Configure subjects and templates per recipient; cancellation emails toggle independently.

Tips

Let customers add a tip at checkout. Enable tipping and pick a percentage (5, 10, 15, 20, or 25%); they choose it or No Tip and the total updates instantly. The tip covers items and add-ons only (not tax or fees), is added to the gateway amount, saved with the order, and shown via {tips} in emails.

Working Hours

Set the days and hours when your business accepts orders. Define your regular weekly schedule and add custom rules for specific dates that need different opening hours.

Order Timing

Control how close to a working period’s end each item can be ordered. Set a global minimum preparation time (overridable per dish) plus a buffer to stop earlier. Items turn unavailable when too little time remains, and timing is re-checked on the server. Supports multiple daily periods.

Pickup & Delivery Time

Let customers choose when they want their order at checkout — ASAP or a specific 10-minute slot today. Available times are computed on the server from preparation time, delivery estimate, and working hours, then frozen onto the order and shown in receipts and emails.

Pause / Open Orders

Temporarily pause online ordering and reopen it with one click, controlled from a settings tab, a floating admin button, or the admin bar — all synced in real time. While paused, show a customizable storefront notice, keep or hide the menu, and block new orders securely on the server.

Menu Item Availability

Mark items available or unavailable without unpublishing, so you can pull a sold-out dish instantly. Unavailable items show a label, lose the Add to Cart button, are flagged in the cart, and are blocked on the server. In admin, a colored Availability column and highlighted editor show status.

Add-on Availability

Mark an add-on available or unavailable to pull a sold-out extra from every dish that uses it at once — assignments stay intact. Unavailable add-ons are hidden on the storefront, flagged if already selected, and blocked on the server. Manage status from the add-on editor and list table.

Inventory

Optionally track stock for menu items and add-ons so sold-out dishes and extras leave the storefront; off by default. Each size keeps its own stock, and add-on stock is shared across dishes. Stock is reduced once per order, enforced on the server, and never restocked automatically.

Live Orders

Keep a real-time view of incoming orders so you never miss one. The Live Orders monitor shows new, unopened orders without refreshing and plays a sound alert. Click an order to open and mark it viewed everywhere. Choose from four sounds, adjust or mute the volume, plus a live admin-bar counter.

Store Designs

Change the look of your store and the Olena admin by picking a design on the Designs page — no code needed. Choose Default (no extra styles), Basic (soft, rounded, coral) or Minimal (clean, squared, terracotta). It loads only when selected, so Default stays lightweight and remembers your choice.

Setup Wizard

Get running quickly with a guided first-run wizard instead of hunting through settings. Set the essentials — currency, store page, time zone, working hours, payments, tips, and emails — or import demo content. It saves through the plugin’s normal settings and appears only on a fresh install.

Demo Import

Get started quickly by importing demo content. The importer creates example menu items and add-ons so you can see how the plugin works and use them as a starting point for your own menu.

Mobile-Friendly Ordering

Olena Food is built with mobile ordering in mind. Customers can browse the menu, customize items, manage their cart, and complete orders from smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers.

No WooCommerce Required

Olena Food provides its own food ordering workflow and doesn’t require WooCommerce, making it ideal for small food businesses that want a focused ordering system without a full eCommerce platform.